by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
According to a new Lancet study, up to 18.2 million people likely died because of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first two years, roughly three times more than the official death toll. The study points to a lack of testing and unreliable mortality data in some...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 1, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
HHS released a report outlining its efforts to make the make the public health supply chains and biological preparedness industrial base more resilient, diverse, and secure. The report explores the public health supply chain and industrial base’s vulnerabilities and...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 28, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC announced Friday it created new metrics for determining when people should use masks and take other COVID-19 precautions. The new benchmarks tie masking recommendations to a combination of a community’s level of cases, hospitalizations, and hospital...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 28, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Only half of the 500 million COVID-19 tests that the White House made available to the public for free have been claimed. According to federal officials, 46 percent of tests have yet to be claimed and daily orders are down from 45 million the day the initiative...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 25, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC is expected to relax federal mask guidance today, as it adopts new metrics to make its recommendations, including hospitalizations and local hospital capacity. The change means that based on current data, most Americans will no longer be advised to wear masks...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
State lawmakers are introducing new legislation to roll back public health measures meant to contain the spread of COVID-19. The bills, which have been introduced in both liberal and conservative states fall into three buckets: restricting mask mandates, banning...
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